A number of provisions follow for the organization of the court, which was to sit at Coventry as a central position, for the auditing the accounts, the employment of the troops, &c. The paper is of great historic value, although, with a people so jealous of their liberties, it was easy to foresee the fate of the project. It is among the Cotton. MSS. Cleopatra, E 4, fol. 215.
[202] Hardwicke State Papers, Vol. I. p. 38.
[203] State Papers, Vol. I. p. 523.
[204] Confession of George Lascelles: Rolls House MS. first series, 774.
[205] And for another reason. They were forced to sue out their pardons individually, and received them only, as Aske and Lord Darcy had been obliged to do, by taking the oath of allegiance, and binding themselves to obey the obnoxious statutes so long as they were unrepealed.—Rolls House MS. first series, 471.
[206] Cromwell.
[207] Robert Aske to the King: MS. State Paper Office, Royal Letters.
[208] “Deum deprecantes ut dextram ense firmet caputque tuum hoc pileo vi Spiritûs Sancti per columbam figurati protegat.”—Paulus III. Regi Scotiæ: Epist. Reg. Pol. Vol. II. p. 269.
[209] “Nec tam muneris qualitatem quam mysterium et vim spiritualem perpendes.”—Ibid.
[210] Although the Doncaster petitioners had spoken of “their antient enemies of Scotland,” an alliance, nevertheless, in the cause of religion, was not, after all, impossible. When James V. was returning from France to Edinburgh, in the spring of 1537, his ship lay off Scarborough for a night to take in provisions—